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And so Aminatta Forna's 'The Memory of Love' continues its onward awards march. The novel, already winner of the Commonwealth W...

While Wordsbody was sleeping, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize shortlists were announced... Here's the UK-based Chioma Okereke , a wr...

Congratulations to writer and scholar, Pius Adesanmi , who was unveiled as the winner of the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing in ...

This was the moment South African author, Kopano Matlwa found out she is a joint winner of the 2010 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Af...

Breaking News : Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani wins the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region). It was phoning galore ...

I've just seen Guardian Prize winning author Petina Gappah's blog post notifying that the call for entries has gone out for the 201...

11 October : The MUSON Centre, Lagos - Debut novelist, Kaine Agary emerged the winner of this year's NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature ...

Uche Peter Umez , the first guest writer to grace the Abuja Writer’ Forum’s newly instituted monthly readings, has won this year’s BSU Creat...

. . . . . One of the niggly things about the Caine Prize season at times is that shortlisted stories aren't always widely available. So ...

Congratulations to Uzor Maxim Uzoatu who's Nigeria's flagbearer for this year's Caine Prize . His story, Cemetery of Life , pub...

News Release More than one hundred submissions were received for the first IRN collection; and, entries were highly competitive. After a rig...

This is Sade Adeniran photographed by the blogger at Goldsmiths College, London, on 13 March 2008 at the 'On Whose Terms' conferenc...

Grainy images tell their own tales too... My friend snapping the moment with my camera was too far away in the audience to get a clear image...

Regional Winners of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Europe & South Asia) From the Press Release Professor Makarand Paranjape, ...

Congratulations to Sade Adeniran (above) who is shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region) for her first novel, Im...

Last week Zadie Smith said... “Most literary prizes are only nominally about literature. They are really about brand consolidation for beer...

If you are one of the 800 entrants for the 2008 Willesden Herald Short Story Competition, well, better luck next year. The £5000 prize judge...

Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu , is a winner in this year's Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa . Author of 2 published novels ( Zahrah the ...

From Per Contra Per Contra has featured winners of The MacArthur Award, the Caine Prize, the Orange Prize, the Walt Whitman Award, the Flan...